PEOPLE & PRINT

Vintage Pulp Science Fiction.

What is it about science and the future and how the science fiction of the past (pre-1950s) almost never could encapsulate the superior scientific innovation and discovery of its near future?

And, like most science fiction at that time they considered that our threats would come from outer space.

I guess that’s why I like a lot of sci-fi centered around man’s bastardry to man.

It is marvelous and wickedly magnificent to look at some cover art and illustration for the pulp and not-so-pulpy science ficton, images that not only have a certain look and feel, but also a smell, a particular bookstore/basement pulp-paper-not-exposed-in-forty-years smell.

Image: Steampunk Eye–that enormous ship, governed by a long, long pole with a small box with an an eye in it, being raised and lowered on pulleys: